Biography from AskART:
| | Born in Chicago, IL on Jan. 17, 1904. Kempster studied at Los Angeles County Art Institute, ASL, Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris, and the Nat'l Academy in Florence, Italy. By 1930 she had settled in Pasadena where she taught at the School of Fine Arts for several years and won many awards in local shows. In 1953 she toured Korea as a portrait painter for the Armed Forces Far East Command. She died in Santa Barbara, CA on May 21, 1978. Exh: Int'l Olympic Games, 1932; Calif. State Fairs, 1931-36; Pasadena Society of Artists, 1936-58; Women Painters of the West, 1951-54; LA AA, 1951; Pasadena Public Library, 1952; Pasadena Art Inst., 1953 (solo). In: Pasadena Art Inst.; Huntington Hospital (Pasadena). | Source:
Edan Hughes, "Artists in California, 1786-1940"
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